The library’s collection of law reviews and legal periodicals is located in the basement. They are arranged in alphabetical order by title. The significant legal periodical indices are detailed below. Unless otherwise indicated, they are also located in the basement of the library. Journals may also be found using the Journal Locator found on the Boatwright Memorial Library webpage. With Journal Locator, the user may browse titles alphabetically, by subject, or through a basic search.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Index to Legal Periodicals and Books is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Full text is available for over 400 periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed, as far back as 1994. Additional coverage is provided for indexing from 1981- and abstracting from 1990.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Retrospective: 1908-1981:The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals: Through CILP, readers receive timely topical access to more than 650 legal publications organized within 104 relevant subject headings. Also included are complete tables of contents from all journals indexed, as well as Bluebook citations. This topical index is published weekly by the William S. Hein Company.
HeinOnline This product is a historical database providing full text searching and pdf format. Coverage includes a variety of law journals, the federal register, treaties, Supreme Court opinions and Opinions of the Attorney General.